Chapter 511: Meteorite

Chapter 511: Chapter 511: Meteorite

As he rapidly retreated, Kagami didn’t forget to counterattack. The dazzling golden sword in his hand swept down with the momentum of his retreat, slashing toward Nagato in the distance.

BOOM...

A series of earth-shaking explosions reverberated through the night sky!

Although this hastily unleashed ’Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion’ failed to strike the prepared Nagato, it bought Kagami precious time to regain his footing, allowing him to land safely on the ground.

At that moment, Kagami pushed the sapphire-blue Tenseigan in his eye sockets to their limit, carefully observing his surroundings while analyzing the bizarre events that had just occurred.

"That black shadow just now... could it have been some kind of clone?

"But Nagato shouldn’t have an ability that strange...

"Could it be some new technique developed by the Akatsuki?"

Thought after thought flashed through his mind.

After all, Hiruko—whose research capabilities could rank among the top three in the entire shinobi world—had joined the Akatsuki through a strange twist of fate. So in Kagami’s eyes, there was nothing particularly surprising about Nagato suddenly gaining access to some new technique.

Moreover, in the original timeline, Nagato had never once used the Rinnegan dojutsu ’Limbo: Border Jail’ from beginning to end. Because of that preconceived notion, Kagami failed to immediately think of this particular dojutsu.

Whoosh...

Suddenly, the two blurry black shadows from before lunged at him once again.

"Huh?!"

Kagami’s brows furrowed as he suddenly noticed something strange.

The two blurry black shadows were darting back and forth through the dust-filled battlefield, yet they didn’t disturb the dust in the slightest or leave behind even the faintest trace of their movement.

Even Kagami, while in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, couldn’t accomplish something like that. As long as something possessed a physical body, no matter how fast or agile its movements were, passing through such dense clouds of dust would inevitably leave traces of its movement behind.

"They aren’t physical entities?"

Kagami’s expression stiffened, but he immediately thought,

"No... they are physical entities!"

Even now, his arms still hadn’t completely recovered from their previous clash and were aching unbearably.

That alone proved that those two blurry black shadows not only possessed physical bodies, but were also extremely powerful.

Before Kagami could continue his analysis, the two black shadows had already charged right up to him.

Having suffered a slight loss in their previous exchange, Kagami’s lips curled into a grin.

He wasn’t the kind of person who would simply swallow a loss without paying it back.

As the black shadows rushed toward him, he deliberately waited until the very last instant before dispelling the ’Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion’ in his hand. The nine Truth-Seeking Balls instantly transformed into a spherical black shell, completely enclosing and protecting him within.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The instant Kagami transformed the nine Truth-Seeking Balls into the black sphere, a barrage of muffled impacts from fists and kicks erupted against its exterior.

The force behind the attacks was so tremendous that even the black sphere trembled slightly.

In the distance, Nagato stared at the scene with his mouth hanging open, disbelief written across his face.

"Just what are those black substances!? How can they block my ’Limbo Clones’ so easily!?"

Nagato knew better than anyone just how powerful his Limbo Clones were.

Previously, even the Fourth Raikage, whose taijutsu ranked among the very best in the entire shinobi world, had quickly fallen before his Limbo Clones.

That was why Nagato simply couldn’t understand how those seemingly ordinary black substances floating around Yama could so effortlessly withstand the ferocious assault of his Limbo Clones—attacks powerful enough to shatter mountains.

Inside the black sphere formed from the Truth-Seeking Balls, Kagami was equally astonished.

The reason he had used the Truth-Seeking Balls to defend against the two blurry black shadows this time was actually because he intended to catch his opponent off guard.

After all, only those who possessed Six Paths power or had mastered senjutsu could come into contact with Truth-Seeking Balls.

Otherwise, the moment someone touched a Truth-Seeking Ball, their body would be completely disintegrated on both the physical and spiritual levels. Even a forbidden technique like Impure World Reincarnation, which blurred the boundary between life and death, could not withstand the disintegration caused by a Truth-Seeking Ball.

Therefore, regardless of what those two blurry black shadows actually were, as long as they possessed neither Six Paths power nor senjutsu, touching the Truth-Seeking Balls should have resulted in their immediate disintegration.

Yet reality was completely different.

Not only had they made direct contact with the Truth-Seeking Balls, they had even caused them to tremble purely through taijutsu!

Setting aside the question of whether they could touch the Truth-Seeking Balls in the first place, in the original timeline, there were only a handful of people capable of affecting Truth-Seeking Balls through sheer taijutsu.

The most noteworthy among them was Guy after opening the Eight Gates.

And even Guy had only managed it after pushing the forbidden technique ’Eight Gates Released Formation’ to its absolute limit, paying an utterly reckless price to unleash a kick powerful enough to distort space itself—and even warp a staff formed from a Truth-Seeking Ball.

Therefore, based on this exchange alone, Kagami could confidently conclude that the taijutsu of those two blurry black shadows outside was absurdly powerful.

There was no way experts of this caliber could simply appear out of nowhere in the shinobi world.

Coupled with the fact that they could directly touch the Truth-Seeking Balls, a possibility suddenly flashed through Kagami’s mind.

"Could it be... that technique of Uchiha Madara’s?"

On the current battlefield, theoretically speaking, aside from Kagami himself, the only people capable of safely touching a Truth-Seeking Ball should be Nagato—whose Power of All Creation had greatly increased and who had begun to touch the threshold of the Six Paths—and Jiraiya while in Sage Mode.

As for the others, such as Obito and Shisui, who had been transplanted with First Hokage cells, the Power of All Creation within their bodies should still be somewhat lacking. They wouldn’t be able to touch a Truth-Seeking Ball with absolute safety.

And those two black shadows obviously couldn’t have anything to do with Jiraiya.

Which meant...

They could only be connected to Nagato.

......

On the Moon.

After hurriedly arriving at the temple where the Giant Tenseigan was enshrined, Otsutsuki Toneri stared at the dazzling light radiating from it. His gaze sharpened, and his expression turned extremely gloomy.

However, he did not immediately form hand seals to sever the resonance between the Giant Tenseigan and the shinobi world. Instead, he walked up to it, extended his right hand, and gently pressed his palm against its surface.

In an instant, his consciousness entered the Giant Tenseigan.

Through it, he gazed toward the distant shinobi world.

The vast distance across space rapidly contracted. In just a few breaths, his consciousness traversed hundreds of thousands of kilometers, pierced through the clouds, and swept across the battlefield where the fierce battle was taking place.

"The Gedo Statue!?"

The Gedo Statue’s enormous figure immediately captured all of Otsutsuki Toneri’s attention.

The branch of the Otsutsuki clan living on the Moon had, in fact, also been entrusted with the important duty of guarding the Ten-Tails’ husk—the Gedo Statue.

Therefore, having the Gedo Statue stolen from them was an extremely humiliating matter for the Otsutsuki descendants on the Moon.

Otsutsuki Toneri was already grieving over the impending death of his last remaining relative. Now that he had discovered the people responsible for stealing the Gedo Statue, his killing intent instantly surged.

He didn’t even take the time to investigate why the Giant Tenseigan had begun resonating.

Instead, he immediately withdrew his consciousness from the battlefield and cast it out into the depths of space.

There, in the vast reaches of space relatively close to the shinobi world, he selected an enormous meteorite.

Then he rapidly formed hand seals and activated the Giant Tenseigan—

Using its power to pull the colossal meteorite toward the shinobi world...

Straight toward the battlefield!

And to avoid alerting his targets beforehand, throughout the entire process, he never severed the resonance between the Giant Tenseigan and the shinobi world...